Rack for adhesive plaster



April 30, 1929. R w JOHNSON I ,71L353 RACK FDR ADHESIVE PLASTER I File dJune 25, 192 7 Patented Apr. 30, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT W. JOHNSON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHNSON &JOHNSON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF JERSEY.

RACK roza ADHESIVE rLAsTEa.

Application filed. June 23,

The invention relates to mountings mainly for hospital use fordispensing adhesive tapeor plaster, and it provides an eflicient andeasily operated rack to accommodate factory filled spools or reels ofadhesive tape or plaster, the object being to guard against substitutionof inferior or competitive tape or plaster. v

The preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,wherein Figure 1 is an elevational view of the improved rack assembly.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the locking standard in open state.

Fig. 3 is a top view section. v

Fig. 4 is an end view of the same.

According to the invention, there is provided a base 5, which may restupon a table or like support or be attached to a wall as by screwfasteningsfi. The base carries a pair of standards, whereof the standard7 is equipped with a centering boss 8'and whereof the standard 9 isequipped with a locking boss 10 for a rod or spindle 11 which received afactory filled and locked assembly of variable width adhesive tape orplaster units 12. 7

The locking boss 10 is divided to provide a releasablehalf boss 13,which is hinged by a pintle mounting 14 in order that it may thereof,partly in assume the position Fig. 2, for the application or removal ofthe spindle 11. The movable half boss, 13, is provided with an end wiseranging screw threaded socket 15, which, when the half boss is in closedposition, is adapted and arranged to register with a threaded opening 16in the standard 1927. Serial No. 200,941.

body and to be engaged and so locked by a thumb screw 17.

In hospitals and the like places where devices of this nature find theirchief utility, the plaster is mounted and dispensed by femal attendantspossessing little or no knowledge of mechanics, and the instant problemis'to devise and providea plaster reel mounting which will fulfill theprimary simple enough to be foolproof.

Having described my invention, 1. claim 1. A rack for factory, filledadhesive plaster, including elements for centering and locking a plastercarrying spindle, comprising a base and a pair of standards risingtherefrom and having integral bearings for the spindle, one of saidbearings having boss divisions whereof one is shiftable laterally toprovide a radial passway for the spindle,

and means penetrating the standard and effective to lock and unlock theshiftable boss element. V

2. A rack for factory filled adhesive plaster, including elements forcentering a plaster carrying spindle, one of said eleoffice ofpreventing substitution and yet be 7 ROBERT" w. Jo'H soN.

